Activities of Elizabeth LYNNE related to 2008/0142(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Patients' rights in cross-border healthcare (debate)
Amendments (14)
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 14 a (new)
Recital 14 a (new)
(14a) In order to ensure that new barriers to the free movement of healthcare workers are not created and to ensure patient safety, equal standards of occupational safety for healthcare workers must be provided, in particular with a view to avoiding risks from infections resulting from accidents at the workplace such as needlestick injuries that can lead to potentially fatal infections, including Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV, as referred to in the European Parliament's resolution with recommendations to the Commission of 6 July 2006 on the protection of healthcare workers from blood-borne infections due to needlestick injuries1. 1 OJ C 303 E, 13.12.2006, p.754.
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 16 a (new)
Recital 16 a (new)
(16a) Member States should in particular ensure a high level of protection is ensured to protect patients, staff and all other persons who have cause to enter healthcare establishments from healthcare associated infections, as these constitute a major threat to public health especially considering cross-border healthcare. All appropriate preventative measures, including hygiene standards and diagnostic screening procedures, should be employed in order to avoid or minimise the risks of healthcare associated infections.
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 34
Recital 34
(34) Appropriate information on all essential aspects of cross-border healthcare is necessary in order to enable patients to exercise their rights to cross-border healthcare in practice. For cross-border healthcare the most efficient mechanism for providing such information is to establish central contact points within each Member State to which patients can refer, and which can provide information on cross-border healthcare taking into account also the context of the health system in that Member State. Since questions about aspects of cross-border healthcare will also require liaison between authorities in different Member States, these central contact points should also constitute a network through which such questions can be most efficiently addressed. These contact points should cooperate with each other and should enable patients to make informed choices about cross- border healthcare. They should also provide information about options available in case of problems with cross-border healthcare, in particular about out- of- court schemes for settling cross-border disputes. border disputes. In developing arrangements for provision of information on cross-border healthcare, the Member States should give consideration to the need to provide information in accessible formats and potential sources of additional assistance for vulnerable patients, disabled people and people with complex needs.
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) the application of such standards by healthcare providers and the competence of health professionals in practice is regularly monitored and corrective action is taken when appropriate to promote excellence and to ensure appropriate standards are not met, taking into account progress in medical science and health technology;
Amendment 89 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) patients, health providers and the public have a means of making complaints and are given guaranteed recourse to appropriate remedies and compensation when they suffer harm arising from the healthcare they receiveor become aware of harm caused arising from cross-border healthcare. This is set in the context of an effective health system and professional regulation.
Amendment 154 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Where prior authorisation has been sought and given, the Member State of affiliation shall ensure that the patient is only expected to pay upfront any costs that they would be expected to be paid in this manner had their care been provided in their home health system. Member States should seek to transfer funds directly between the funders and the providers of care for any other costs.
Amendment 168 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
1. The Member State of affiliationtreatment shall ensure that there are mechanisms in place to provide patients on request with information on receiving healthcare in another Member State, and the terms and conditionmake information publicly available including about receiving healthcare and registered health professionals and providers in that Member State, the quality and safety standards that would apply, inter alia, wheneverthe regulatory system in place, and the process for making complaints where harm is caused as a result of healthcare received in anotherthat Member State.
Amendment 172 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 2
Article 10 – paragraph 2
2. The information referred to in paragraph 1 shall be made easily accessible, including by electronic means, in formats easily accessible to people with disabilities at no extra cost, and shall include information on patients' entitlements, on procedures for accessing those entitlements and on systems of appeal and redress if the patient is deprived of such entitlements.
Amendment 179 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) provide and disseminate information to patients in particular on their rights related to cross-border healthcare and the guarantees of quality and safety standards, protection of personal data, procedures for complaints and, the means by which professionals and providers are regulated and the means by which regulatory action can be taken, the means of redress available for healthcare provided in anotherthat Member State, and on the terms and conditions applicable;
Amendment 191 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 13 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Member states shall immediately and proactively inform each other about health providers or health professionals when regulatory action is taken against their registration or their right to provide services.
Amendment 201 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 2 - point c a (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 2 - point c a (new)
(ca) measures to ensure that prescriptions issued and information given about medicinal products prescribed are accessible to people with disabilities.
Amendment 203 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Those contracting e-health services from providers and professionals in other Member States shall ensure they are appropriately regulated and qualified and that they have demonstrated, via the relevant competent authority, that they are fit to practise and to provide e-health services.
Amendment 493 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Where prior authorisation has been sought and given, the Member State of affiliation shall ensure that the patient is only expected to pay up front any costs that they would be expected to pay in this manner had their care been provided in the health system of their Member State of affiliation. Member States should seek to transfer funds directly between the funders and the providers of care for any other costs.
Amendment 609 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 13 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Member States shall immediately and proactively inform each other about health providers or health professionals when regulatory action is taken against their registration or their right to provide services.